Please forward this to anyone you know who may be interested.
Thanks,
Suzanne
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Call for Papers
C. S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates: Questions of Identity
2 & 3 June 2011, Lille Catholic University, France.
Although certain aspects of C. S. Lewis's work have been studied in great
detail, others have been comparatively neglected. In this international
conference, the first of its kind to be held in France, we hope to look at
Lewis's life and work, and those of his friends and associates, from many
different angles. Questions of identity are essential to the understanding of
any writer. The ways authors perceive themselves and who they are, the
communities they belong to by birth or choice, inevitably influence their
work. The way they present other people, real or fictional, may also be
rooted
in their own conception of identity. We are therefore seeking for papers
which
examine gender and family roles, national, regional, racial or professional
identities, membership of a particular church, movement or club, ideological
or political attachments, descriptions of oneself (eg. dinosaur, Old Western
Man) either with regard to Lewis and those who knew him or in a study of
their
writings. Among Lewis's friends and associates we would include his brother
Warnie, his wife Joy, J.R.R.. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dorothy L. Sayers,
T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter and Owen Barfield, but would also consider studies of
anyone who worked with Lewis or who influenced him. Comparative
studies of Lewis and another writer are also possible.
Please send propositions for papers (200 to 300 words) to Suzanne Bray
(suzanne.bray@...) by June 15, 2010. Papers may be given in French
or
English. Academic Panel: David Downing (Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania),
William Gray (University of Chichester), Suzanne Bray (Lille Catholic
University).